Bellah

Peak · girls
2012 · 42 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
502
since 2003

Bellah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Bellah has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,711, 2012girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#11,9327
2024#8,94611
2023#12,1977
2022#9,68010
2021#8,97811
2020#4,88026
2019#4,77328
2018#3,85338
2017#4,92227
2016#6,40119
2015#4,58430
2014#4,26934
2013#4,33633
2012#3,71142
2011#4,07236
2010#4,02337
2009#4,37034
2008#5,27927
2007#9,53912
2006#8,23714
2005#11,8348
2004#14,1796
2003#15,7845
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First appearance
2003

The first year at least five girls were named Bellah! It came in at #15,784, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

Where Bellah is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Bellah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Bellah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 2,986 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #11,932)
  • 7,052 spots since 2020 (#4,880 → #11,932)
  • 7,348 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #11,932)
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2003
  • Peaked 2012 at #3,711 (42 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 41,930
  • Highest: 1 in 41,930 girls born in 2012 were named Bellah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 64.5% of all girls named Bellah (324) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s106#4,370 (2009)#9,889
2010s324#3,711 (2012)#4,494
2020s72#4,880 (2020)#9,436

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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